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Deborah Slater director, choreographer and
performer, has worked in dance and theater for the last 20 years.
A cofounder of Circuit Network Management, she is
Artistic Director of Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Studio 210 and
founder and Artistic Director of
Art of the Matter Performance
Foundation (AOTM).
Sonya Smith, (link) a former monkey-bar junkie, discovered in college that dancing was much more entertaining than running around in circles jumping over little fences. Since then she has performed, produced and collaborated on work in Minneapolis, Portland, and San Francisco with Project Bandaloop, Kim Epifano, Dance Ceres, Eat Cake Productions, Lizz Roman and Dancers, Zaccho Dance Theater and Courtney Moreno and Christopher Love. A longtime resident at 848 Community Space, she continues that work as a member of the CounterPULSE Board of Directors. Sonya Smith, part of the creative team that created Groundbirds, that prompted the Bay Area Reporter to deem it the “most powerful”performance of the 2004 Fresh Meat Performance festival, return to refine their signature style of aerial partnering in performance. Janice Garrett, artistic director of Janice Garrett & Dancers, is a choreographer and dance educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1990, following a ten-year residency in New York where she performed and toured extensively as a member of Dan Wagoner and Dancers, she began choreographing, performing, and teaching throughout the US and abroad. She has received commissions from various companies and performance groups including Scottish Dance Theatre, London Contemporary’s 4D Performance Group, London Contemporary Dance School, and Skolen for Moderne Dans i Danmark. Her choreography has been presented in San Francisco at Theater Artaud, The Cowell Theater, ODC Theater, and Brady Street Dance Centre as well as at The Palace Theater, Los Angeles, The Place Theatre, London, the Nott Dance Festival, Nottingham and Danse Scenen, Copenhagen. Janice has also been a guest teacher for numerous dance companies including, Rambert Dance Company, DV8 Physical Theatre, and Adventures in Motion Pictures. After over a decade working as an independent choreographer, she formed Janice Garrett & Dancers.
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